Cake and dessert ring



Get. 26, 1937. P. TRUESDALE 2,997,356.

CAKE AND DESSERT RIQNG Filed 001;. 29, 1936 Patented Oct. 26, 1937 UNITED STATES TENT OFFICE Application October 29,

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a ring structure capable of embodiment in the form of a single ring or in the form of a plurality as in a baking pan.

The invention aims to provide a novel construction capable of manufacture from any suitable material, usually sheet metal, having rings or depressions with central frusto-conical elements therein to facilitate the removal of cakes, desserts or the like, which rings preferably terminate below the top of the rings and are spaced therefrom, so that the cakes or desserts may be formed either perforate or imperforate as desired.

The more specific objects-and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the description following taken in connection with accompanying drawing illustrating an operative embodiment.

In said drawing:

Figure l is a plan View of the invention in the form of a pan;

Figure 2 is a cross sectional view taken on the plane of line 22 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a plan View of a modified form showing the invention employed as a single ring and Figure 4 is a diametric sectional View taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 3.

Referring first to the form of Figures 1 and 2, the same is made from any desired material and in any suitable manner. It is preferably stamped from a single sheet of metal into the form of a pan I0, consisting of an upper plate like portion l I, preferably provided with openings l2 adjacent each end, to enable suspension from a nail, hook or the like. This pan may have any number of depressed rings or cups as at E3, which cups have struck up central cores M. The Walls at the sides of the cups l3 taper in a downward direction while the side walls of the cores l4 taper in an upward direction, such cores thus being frustoconical and closed at the top as at l5, with the frustrums disposed a slight distance below the upper surface of the pan.

Said pan may be used for various purposes in the kitchen or elsewhere, as for instance in baking, in molding desserts from any desired mate- 1936, Serial No. 108,282

rial, etc. It will be realized that the cups may be filled with the material being baked or molded up to the level of'the frustrums l5, so that the products will produce rings or perforated articles. On the contrary, the cups may be filled up to the top of the pan and thus across the frustrums l5, giving the appearance of solid or imperforated products in the way of cakes, desserts and the like. The provision of the tapered cores l4 facilitates the removal of the cakes or molded desserts and in fact when the pan is inverted, an instrument may be disposed in the hollow portions of the cores i l and be struck against the under surfaces of the frustrums E5, to facilitate the dislodging of the cakes or desserts.

While a plurality of the rings or cups may be embodied in a single structure as disclosed in Figures 1 and 2, yet the invention may be practiced in the form of a single cup as in Figures 3 and 4, it being realized that such cups may be made in various and any desired sizes. Each of such cups corresponds with the plurality of the preceding form, having a horizontal plate like portion or flange at l l, downwardly tapering side Walls IS, a core I l and a frustrum l5 on such core terminating slightly below the upper edge of the pan, such parts corresponding to and functioning like those at l I, l3, l4 and i5, respectively. This form of the invention may also be struck in a single piece from sheet metal or provided in any other desired manner and from any other preferred material.

I claim as my invention:-

A device of the class described in a single piece of sheet metal comprising cups relatively close together and each having a downwardly tapering wall, a bottom wall, an upwardly tapering frustoconical core extending from the bottom wall, said core being closed across its frustrum and disposed relatively close to and below the top of the pan, said tapering walls being of the same degree of inclination and a horizontal plate like portion at the upper edge of the first mentioned wall.

PEARL TRUESDALE. 

